Policy Adviser, Regulated Professions Advisory Functions Support Officer
Department for Business and Trade
Apply before 11:55 pm on Wednesday 23rd October 2024
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Job summary
Recognition of professional qualifications is a crucial lever for the DBT to achieve its priorities of removing barriers to business and helping UK businesses to sell their services overseas. 37% of UK services exports in 2022 were from business services sectors in which workers legally need a qualification to practise their profession.
As such, the Regulated Professions Policy (RPP) team in TPIN has a high-profile and indispensable role to play in delivering the Government’s trade in services objectives and labour market outcomes.
The Regulated Professions Advisory Functions Grade 7 team is responsible for ensuring that lack of information on how to work in regulated (and chartered) professions in the UK is not a barrier to professional mobility. The team is responsible for the development and maintenance of the UK’s central database of regulated professions – the Regulated Professions Register, alongside associated legislation to gather data from regulators, ensure regulators share data with domestic and overseas counterparts, and to develop an advisory service to support professionals into UK regulated professions.
Job description
You will play an essential part in managing, maintaining and raising awareness of the UK’s central digital advisory function for regulated professions. The role will involve:
- Leading on the management and maintenance of the Regulated Professions Register – a world-leading central repository for regulated professions in the UK.
- Overseeing the team’s contribution to a commercial procurement exercise, managing the team’s relationship with DBT’s digital teams, and ensuring the procurement exercise is delivered on time and to budget.
- Supporting engagement with regulators, devolved governments and across Whitehall to commission large datasets and changes to legislation, where required.
- Communicating with, and influencing regulators, to ensure they keep their entries on the Register up to date, understand what is needed from them, and able to persuade them to engage.
- Supporting the delivery of an enhancement programme for the Register, including managing the team’s relationship with an external commercial supplier.
- Establishing strong working relationships within the department, including other policy directorates with an interest in the Register, as well as with analysts, lawyers, and ministerial Private Offices.
- Supporting work on legislation, which may include working with lawyers to draft regulations, and managing the parliamentary process to take legislation through parliament, as required.
- Preparing written briefing and advice to senior officials and ministers; contributing to briefings as required; ensuring relationships with regulators and chartered bodies are upheld and delivering for the whole team.
- Contributing to work within the wider team. This will include, but is not limited to, engagement with internal and external stakeholders, project planning and evaluation, providing input into cross-team briefings, research papers and planning, and working across multiple portfolios to develop capabilities and expertise in all areas of the whole team.
Person specification
Essential criteria
- Strong written and verbal communication skills including the ability to confidently communicate complex policy concepts to internal and external audiences, as well as the ability to draft complex documents at pace.
- Ability to work at pace, remaining flexible and adaptable to successfully deliver priorities in a fast-moving environment.
- Strong interpersonal skills with a proven track record of working with a range of stakeholders, in particular commercial colleagues.
- Keen eye for detail and the ability to grapple with complex and technical policy issues, including legal advice that may be unfamiliar.
- Ability to identify the strategic drivers for your work area and the links with other work areas in the directorate and the department.
- Strong communicating and influencing skills, in particular across domestic policy areas and with internal commercial/finance stakeholders.
- Ability and confidence to communicate with stakeholders who may be reluctant to engage or where plans and deliverables are uncertain.
- Excellent organisational skills, with an ability to prioritise and manage yours, and the wider team’s workload effectively.
- Confident self-starter that can work independently, particularly as your manager may be based in a different office location.
Desirable criteria
- Knowledge or experience of managing websites or databases – or a willingness to quickly undertake training in order to develop necessary capability.
- Knowledge or experience of undertaking public sector commercial procurement – or a willingness to undertake training in order to develop necessary capability.
- Knowledge or experience coordinating government policy – or a willingness to quickly undertake policy profession training in order to develop necessary capability.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Managing a Quality Service
- Working Together
- Changing and Improving
We only ask for evidence of these behaviours on your application form:
- Delivering at Pace
- Managing a Quality Service
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
We recognise the challenges that people with (multiple) protected characteristics may experience on the job market and in their career progression. We are fully committed to being an inclusive employer and ensuring equal opportunities. We are keen to make our workforce as diverse as possible, and we hope to attract applications from underrepresented groups, including ethnic minorities, people with a disability, and people with gender diverse identities.
Please refer to the attached candidate pack for further information on our benefits.
Things you need to know
Selection process details
Interviews for this vacancy will be conducted virtually. We will, however, consider in-person interviews by exception.
Please ensure that you check your emails regularly as all updates from us will be sent to you this way.
To apply for this post, you will be asked to complete the following as part of the online application:
- A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Provide employment history that relates to the Essential criteria, and that any gaps in employment history within the last 2 years are explained. The CV should not exceed more than 2 x A4 pages.
- A Personal Statement (500 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role in reference to the Essential criteria.
- Examples of the Behaviours listed.
It is likely that the sift will take place 1-2 weeks after the closing date and interviews 3-5 weeks after the closing date though this is subject to change.
Applicants will be assessed on the CV, Personal Statement and the Behaviours Delivering at Pace and Managing a Quality Service at application.
All behaviours Delivering at Pace and Managing a Quality Service, Changing and Improving, Communicating and Influencing and Working Together will be assessed at interview.
In the event of a large number of applicants, an initial short sift will be conducted on the Behaviour - Managing a Quality Service.
Candidates who pass the initial sift may be progressed to a full sift or progressed straight to assessment/interview.
The selection process will involve a brief written exercise prior to the interview stage.
Reasonable Adjustments
We are committed to supporting candidates so they can perform at their best throughout the recruitment process. This includes making reasonable adjustments to our process. In order to request an adjustment:
Complete the ‘Assistance required’ section on the ‘Additional requirements’ page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process.
Alternatively contact the Government Recruitment Service at DBTrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs.
If you are experiencing accessibility problems with any attachments on this advert, please contact the email address in the 'Contact point for applicants' section.
Candidate Support
You may want to join a virtual Candidate Support Session. These sessions include helpful tips and advice on the recruitment process, from application to interview.
Please see attached Candidate Pack for further information on: Diversity and Inclusion; Benefits; Learning and Development; Working Patterns and what we deliver as a department.
Further Information:
- A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made. Reserve Lists will be for each location and appointments made in merit order based on location preferences.
- Any move to the Department for Business and Trade from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments.
- The Department will not consider sponsoring a visa or issuing a Certificate of Sponsorship. We are unable to offer advice on any Visa and Immigration cases.
- New entrants are expected to join on the minimum of the pay band.
- Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty. Any applicant who has details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
- A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
- Terms and Conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.
- Please note – the successful candidate will be expected to remain in post for a minimum of 18 months before being released for another role.
- This role may be considered as a secondment opportunity. Please reach out to the hiring manager listed at the bottom of this advert to discuss.
In order to process applications without delay, we will be sending a Criminal Record Check to Disclosure and Barring Service /Disclosure Scotland/Access NI on your behalf.
However, we recognise in exceptional circumstances some candidates will want to send their completed forms direct. If you will be doing this, please advise Government Recruitment Service of your intention by emailing Pre-EmploymentChecks.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk stating the job reference number in the subject heading.
For further information on the Disclosure Scotland confidential checking service telephone: the Disclosure Scotland Helpline on 0870 609 6006 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email Info@disclosurescotland.co.uk
For further information on the Access NI confidential checking service telephone: the Access NI Helpline on 0300 200 7888 and ask to speak to the operations manager in confidence, or email accessni@ani.x.gsi.gov.uk
Vetting
The requirement for SC clearance is to have been present in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5-years. Failure to meet the residency requirements will result in your security clearance application being rejected.
For further information on National Security Vetting please visit the following page https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/demystifying-vetting
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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Working for the Civil Service
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
Diversity and Inclusion
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : Joe Worthington
- Email : joe.worthington@businessandtrade.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : dbtrecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk
Further information
If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact DBT by email: Resourcing@businessandtrade.gov.uk.
If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.
For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: Click here to visit Civil Service Commission/Complaints
